Orient Blackswan: 280 books

This book is a scholarly, critical work on the poetry of Sylvia Plath. It was originally the author’s Ph.D. thesis and is written with rare sensitivity.

Indian iconography has chiefly been catalogued by historians; it has not been extensively subjected to the analytical scrutiny that is essential to its use as a source of knowledge about our historical past. The present volume is therefore a pioneering study in that it looks at iconography as an index...

The papers in this volume were presented at the 2008 Chotro Conference on Indigeneous Languages, Culture and Society, Jan 2008, Delhi. It forms Vol.I of a 2-volume collection. The papers in this collection analyse the history and contemporary situation of indigenous peoples from different parts of the...

his book is “one of memories and reflections” of historian Percival Spear, and his wife Margaret. Their association with India began in 1924 when he joined St Stephen's College, Delhi, as a young lecturer and stayed on in the city till 1944.Unlike many books of the period that studied the political...

This book takes into account the needs of consumers and home science students. It deals with various aspects of textiles, both natural and synthetic, colours and dyes in fabrics, and properties of soap and laundering. The new topics added are: scope of textiles, high tenacity viscose rayon, permanent press in fabrics, and home dyeing. 

All inhibitions evaporated.  Pushing, kicking and punching, the Forrester students sought to prevent their erstwhile opponents from entering the bus.  Their efforts were led by Seenu, the Forrester College light heavyweight who in his militant enthusiasm half got into the vehicle himself.  The students...

This volume represents one of the rare and comprehensive exercises in critically analysing diverse aspects of Indias engagement with the world after the cold war. It is primarily written for the students and scholars in international relations who are trying to grapple with different aspects of Indias...

The collection of texts in this anthology traces the evolution of urban policy as an academic discipline and places the dynamics of this policy in its socio-political context. The approach is chronological.The first section is an outline of the evolution of urbanization and the transformation of the...

Communication and Analysis Skills is a textbook for use to students. It has five chapters, which cover aspects of one-to-one communication and communication within a group, presentation skills, personal grooming and research skills, which are topics relevant to students  because they prepare them...

It is a resource book that has been written keeping in mind the training/teaching needs of English teachers in India. The rationale is that not all teachers get an opportunity to receive in-service training or access the latest books in the field. The book provides a synthesis between principles of language...

In this book some of South Asia’s best minds address questions on the political, scientific, strategic, economic and environmental aspects of India’s decision to proceed with the nuclear weapons programme. The contributors include Kanti Bajpai, Admiral L. Ramdas, Amartya Sen, Amulya Reddy and...

Picturing the Nation presents a visual history of modern India and explores visual representations of India from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. The essays in this volume have illustrations, which have all been reproduced in full colour on art paper. The illustrated pages have also...

This authentic and authoritative History of Jaipur was commissioned by Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II, the last ruler of the erstwhile Jaipur state. Sir Jadunath Sarkar agreed to take up the assignment and completed the manuscript in 1939-40. This book was finally published, as it was originally written,...

Questions of truth, untruth, representation and deception were pivotal to sixteenth and seventeenth century thought. Be it Machiavelli, More or Montaigne, writers and philosophers struggled with questions of lying and truth-telling, and how truth is constructed and performed. But what view did Shakespeare...